This is a great moment of pride for the country as national capital region Gurgaon now houses the first full K12 school on the planet to achieve the LEED-EB Platinum rating apart from being the highest rated LEED-EB school on Earth.

LEED, or Leadership in Energy &
Environmental Design, is a green building certification program that
recognizes best-in-class building strategies and practices. To
receive LEED certification, building projects satisfy prerequisites
and earn points to achieve different levels of certification.

In
Focus

Pathways School in
Gurgaon has been
conferred the LEED-EB Platinum by United
States Green Building Council, most
premier Green Building Organisation in the world, making it the
Highest Rated Green
School Building in the World.

In securing this rating, Pathways has
achieved following landmarks:

?First
LEED-EB Platinum Full K-12 School in the world

?Highest
rated LEED-EB school in the world

?First
LEED-EB Platinum school in India

?First
LEED-EB certified school in India

On receiving this certification
Director of Pathways School, Prashant Jain, said, "At Pathways we
believe that being an education institution, apart from imparting
good all round education, it is our duty to sensitise these children
about sustainability and a better world tomorrow. And what is the
better way than to make them experience and live a sustainable life.
Hence when we were designing the school we laid all possible emphasis
is creating a Green Campus with Zero Discharge."

While setting these as target,
tackling a cue from the traditional Indian Architecture where old
Forts and Palaces always remained cool in summers and warm in
winters, there were two challenges that were taken on:

- To achieve a Green Architecture
saving 8-10% in project cost, in the process wrong proving the
general notion that to build green you have to spend about 10%
additional.

This started the journey of
research and brainstorming. Thinking with an open mind, challenging
the present norms of the industry, keeping things as simple as
possible, we devised our progress plan and accordingly built the
Pathways School Gurgaon Campus as the Highest
Rated Green School Building in the World,
achieving both the challanges we had started with. And whats more,
the same has been recognised by the most premier Green Building
Organisation in the world - USGBC.

"We believe that this can, and
should be the game changer in the way forward for sustainable
architecture in the world. The present notion 'to build green you
have to cough up about 10% more in the project cost' is a huge block.
And as the developers will learn that actually by going green they
will save 8-10% in the project cost, there will be no one going not
for green!" added Prashant Jain.

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